Marine Geographic Information System: Principles, Technology, and Applications

Author: Su Fenzhen et al
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book is tailored to the specific needs of the marine field for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), addressing the dynamic, fuzzy, and high-dimensional characteristics of marine environments. It provides an in-depth exploration of the fundamental concepts, analytical methods, technological development, and practical applications of Marine Geographic Information Systems (MGIS), primarily focusing on the basic scientific issues of MGIS, such as data models, logical computation, and visualization. All the theories, technologies, methods, and applications in this book are based on a core concept—the spatiotemporal process. This concept is used to examine how MGIS expresses spatiotemporal processes, leading to the design of a spatiotemporal data model for MGIS and a series of technical and integrated methods based on this model. It also details the development methodology of MGIS through the development of MaXplorer, providing a comprehensive software design. Furthermore, it illustrates how to extract the morphological characteristics of mesoscale marine phenomena from data fields under the support of MGIS, and subsequently express, store, and analyze these marine phenomena. In line with the development of the "Digital Ocean," this book conducts a prototype study of the Digital Ocean using Liaodong Bay as an example. This book is suitable for researchers, teachers, and graduate students in related fields such as remote sensing, geographic information systems, surveying, geography, marine science, and atmospheric science.